Life is busy for most people and usually requires a bit of juggling. Studying a course to help develop your career though is important and good for the whole family. So here are a few hints and tips to help with studying.
1. Plan your week – very few people can plan further ahead than a week especially if you have children who have things going on as well. But a proper 10 min sit down and going through each day will help with studying as you can plan the coming week and identify when and where you could study. Book in your study time as if they were appointments.
2. Little and often or larger study chunks? – we are all different and what suits one person may not suit another. There is more than one way to approach studying, time wise. You may find you can study for 30-40 mins most days and easily pick up where you were the day before. Others might prefer to settle into a good hour of studying every other day or more at the weekend. Find out what suits your learning curve and your weekly planning. This helps you to keep studying as part of your life without it being a headache.
3. Get the family involved – even the children! We have many stories where we hear our students’ children offer to help on the domestic front as well as partners – to give you that time out to focus on your studying. Have you asked for help from your family yet?
4. Set yourself some goals – you may find this gives you that extra push to help you to achieve something at different stages of the course such as finishing a module before the end of the week. Is this something you would find beneficial?
5. Peace and quiet – not easy to find nowadays but where you study is just as important as when you study. You need to be able to focus and concentrate so the study slot is effective, and you will feel you have achieved something at the end of it. So, think through where you could study quietly and without being interrupted.
I hope the above has given you ideas to help with studying your course.
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Thank you Simon. I found the above tips extremely useful to manage my work load effectively.
Brilliant!
Excellent tips Simon thank you so much. I’m finding it hard to find some quiet in house at the moment.
Thank you Simon. Really useful and efficient tips for studying, easy to adapt even for a busy lifestyle.
A must read for every student!
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Thank you Simon for the tips! This really helped me balance my work life and studying more effective.
Thank Simon for the helpful tips!
Very useful tips Simon, many thanks.
Very useful tips! I will try to demonstrate this in my everyday working life.
Thank you for the tips my week is never the same so find it difficult to plan but these have tips have helped 🙂
Great tips, thank you for sharing.
Thank you Simon for the ideas. As a career woman and a mum these tips helps me to plan out my studying time.
useful tips thanks
Great tips Simon, I have set up a nice spreadsheet with the modules and a timeline for each module. The only thing left is to stick with it but sometimes life gets in the way.
Thankyou for the comments Simon,THIS AND YOUR ONLINE HELP HAS BEEN INVALUABLE
Thank You Simon for the useful ideas on how to juggle being a parent, work and study.
Great tips for all students.
These are some great tips for something I’ve been struggling with. Especially liking the the tip for getting the kids involved with domestic tasks 🙂
Thank you Simon for the very helpful tips.
Very useful tips for something I’ve been struggling with!
Thanks for the tips Simon, I try to get my studying done on my day off when there’s no-one else around.
I have found your tips for studying very useful. Thank you Simon.
Thank you Simon for the very helpful tips. These tips help me to plan out my studying time.
Really helpful post – thanks!
Really useful tips. Planning my studying ahead of time has helped me keep on top of it and stick to my goals. Thank you
Brilliant study tips here and really helpful. Thank you Simon 🙂
Valuable tips for studying. Thank you Simon 🙂
This was a really helpful post to help me with my studying thank you Simon! 🙂
This advice has been very valuable for my studying, thank you Simon!
Reading this through has been a great help, and a reminder to set a study plan for each week with a goal at the end. Helping, sticking to an achievable and manageable time scale with positive results.
Very useful tips to help with my studying.
Thank you Simon! Extremely valuable tips for my studying.
Very useful tips, thank you!
Thank you for the above tips they’re so helpful. I struggle with juggling my time so planning my week has made it so much easier to focus on study and allow others to not disturb me when studying.
These are very useful tips that i will try to apply.
Thank you
Thank you Simon. These are very useful tips.
Really useful hint and tips. The most important for me is setting daily and weekly goals and push myself to gain it.
Thank you for your very useful tips. Planning my week and setting goals has made a difference with my studying!
Thank you, Simon. I found listed hints and tips very useful.
They will definitely help me to plan for success in my studies.
Such useful tips to help make studying part of your life! Thanks Simon.
Thank you for Simon! I have found your blogs very informative! Keep it up!
Thank you, The tips and advice listed are great!